Blue Sea Island

So hopefully this is a fair overall review. The hotel is beautiful, it’s clearly been newly renovated and whilst there are some small snags the overall standard is good. Everything is kept immaculately clean and the maids never seem to stop mopping the common areas. Our room was cleaned every day with clean sheets and fresh towels left daily. We found the food really good and whilst the food in the main restaurant was a little smart by the end of the week there was so much choice it was never a problem. The pizza bar was amazing with fresh pizzas made throughout the whole service 12-6 every day. There were also fresh crepes/ waffles/ ice creams So now for the not so good points. We arrived at around 11:30 at night and we’re very tired. We checked in easily and the hotel had wrapped some hame and cheese sandwiches up for us to take one when we arrived, which was a nice touch. We got to our room and we were really impressed with the selection of fruit that had been left in our room for us along with a bottle of local red wine and 6 large bottles of water, great! By this point it was nearly midnight and we were desperate to get our 8 year old to bed, however, we had not been left any sheets for the sofa bed. I rang reception who said they’d send someone over straight away, however, 20 minutes later no one had arrived, I rang again and was told 2 minutes. Another 10 minutes went by and I started to walk over to reception as we were exhausted and just wanted to sleep, I bumped into a member of staff coming my way who just showed me where the sheets were and told me to help myself. My little boy also had no pillows, however, by this point I just gave him a towel to use as he was done. The next morning I asked the cleaner for a pillow for him but none were left, however, I do accept this might have been might fault due to the language barrier. I finally solved the issue after another call to reception. We were due to leave at 19:00 so the day before I went to reception and asked if it would be possible to have a late check out, I was told yes we could have our room until 6pm as there were no more reservations, however, I was then told it would be €60, I politely declined as I felt that was quite a lot just to keep the room, however, if that was their policy fine. The problem came the next morning when I’d raced around packing everything up so we were ready for the 11am check out and the woman in front of me was told she could keep her room until 18:00 and there would be no charge. As you can imagine I was a little annoyed at this point! A few other things to note about the hotel and area in general. All of the staff were lovely. Especially the barmaid at the water park bar and the lifeguard. A few night’s during our stay there was a photographer taking photos on the way into the restaurant. He took a lot of pictures and the next day wanted to charge me €64. I only wanted one of them but there was a two print minimum and it ended up costing me

Just returned home from a weeks stay, the hotel itself is clean. The food in the main restaurant in my opinion is awful, there is no real orange juice at breakfast just watered down juice. The set up of the restaurant is so disorganised , the cups and glasses for drinks are no where near the machines, the are no plates next to the bread and the butter is round the corner, the toasters are useless and don't work properly. The staff serving the food are all miserable and the alcoholic drinks are very poor only about 8 drinks on the menu and all taste awful. The beach bar serves nice pizza and crepes although the lady serving them is miserable and rude. There is a bus stop outside that can take you to a lot of different places and all within a 20-40 minute bus ride. We made the best of our holiday by going out most days and eating out. There is also a lot of steps at this hotel. could not use Al a Carte restaurant as was fully booked. Entertainment was also poor standard. I would not rate this hotel as a 4 Star

We stayed at this hotel for 11 days with my husband and child in July. The hotel had reconstructed rooms, however some finishing touches were sometimes made in the hotel and its grounds. Rooms were smaller but OK. Rooms were cleaned daily, thanks young nice ladies. Minibar was filled only upon arrival with 6 big bottles of water and sandviches if you came later- after 23h. Thankfully we had our room just by the pool in the main building. There is no changing cabine by the pool or by the beach and only 1 toilette in amphiteather which was often dirty. I saw a rat 1 evening there.... If you are leaving later in the evening, you have no place to shower or change since there is no changing room or spa. Never experienced this before.... The food was average, repetitive. The restaurant was full but we had no problem to find a table. The waiting staff was very nice, polite and working very hard. Doing their best. Thank you! The restaurant was often out of plates or small spoons, glasses. Drinks were normal as in every other all inclusive resorts we have been before. Local non -alcoholic, alcoholic drinks and coctails. The pool was nice , clean. Lot of sunbeds anytime. But there was problem to find sunbeds at the beach. You have to reserve them by 8 am. The upper part of the beach was flooded by some water or something and was not pleasant, it was muddy. I think they fixed it by the time of our departure. The beach is small and the sunbeds are close to each other. Water is crystal clean and clear. We could see a lot of fish and snorkled a lot. Animation team was fine. Doing their best. They did day and night programme as well. Sometimes the night programme was like kids camp fun. The aquapark was nice but the water there was VERY cold. The aquapark buliding is across the street. It is separate from the main building. Overall the stay was nice but we expected more for the money we paid and as was advertised. We would rate it as 3 plus maybe.